Running MapReduce Example Programs and Benchmarks
- Running MapReduce Examples
- Running Basic Hadoop Benchmarks
- Summary and Additional Resources
This chapter is from the book
This chapter is from the book
This chapter is from the book
When using new or updated hardware or software, simple examples and benchmarks help confirm proper operation. Apache Hadoop includes many examples and benchmarks to aid in this task. This chapter provides instructions on how to run, monitor, and manage some basic MapReduce examples and benchmarks.
Running MapReduce Examples
All Hadoop releases come with MapReduce example applications. Running the existing MapReduce examples is a simple process—once the example files are located, that is. For example, if you installed Hadoop version 2.6.0 from the Apache sources under /opt, the examples will be in the following directory:
/opt/hadoop-2.6.0/share/hadoop/mapreduce/
In other versions, the examples may be in /usr/lib/hadoop-mapreduce/ or some other location. The exact location of the example jar file can be found using the find command:
$ find / -name "hadoop-mapreduce-examples*.jar" -print
For this chapter the following software environment will be used:
- OS: Linux
- Platform: RHEL 6.6
- Hortonworks HDP 2.2 with Hadoop Version: 2.6
In this environment, the location of the examples is /usr/hdp/2.2.4.2-2/hadoop-mapreduce. For the purposes of this example, an environment variable called HADOOP_EXAMPLES can be defined as follows:
$ export HADOOP_EXAMPLES=/usr/hdp/2.2.4.2-2/hadoop-mapreduce
Once you define the examples path, you can run the Hadoop examples using the commands discussed in the following sections.
Listing Available Examples
A list of the available examples can be found by running the following command. In some cases, the version number may be part of the jar file (e.g., in the version 2.6 Apache sources, the file is named hadoop-mapreduce-examples-2.6.0.jar).
$ yarn jar $HADOOP_EXAMPLES/hadoop-mapreduce-examples.jar
The possible examples are as follows:
An example program must be given as the first argument. Valid program names are: aggregatewordcount: An Aggregate based map/reduce program that counts the words in the input files. aggregatewordhist: An Aggregate based map/reduce program that computes the histogram of the words in the input files. bbp: A map/reduce program that uses Bailey-Borwein-Plouffe to compute exact digits of Pi. dbcount: An example job that count the pageview counts from a database. distbbp: A map/reduce program that uses a BBP-type formula to compute exact bits of Pi. grep: A map/reduce program that counts the matches of a regex in the input. join: A job that effects a join over sorted, equally partitioned datasets multifilewc: A job that counts words from several files. pentomino: A map/reduce tile laying program to find solutions to pentomino problems. pi: A map/reduce program that estimates Pi using a quasi-Monte Carlo method. randomtextwriter: A map/reduce program that writes 10GB of random textual data per node. randomwriter: A map/reduce program that writes 10GB of random data per node. secondarysort: An example defining a secondary sort to the reduce. sort: A map/reduce program that sorts the data written by the random writer. sudoku: A sudoku solver. teragen: Generate data for the terasort terasort: Run the terasort teravalidate: Checking results of terasort wordcount: A map/reduce program that counts the words in the input files. wordmean: A map/reduce program that counts the average length of the words in the input files. wordmedian: A map/reduce program that counts the median length of the words in the input files. wordstandarddeviation: A map/reduce program that counts the standard deviation of the length of the words in the input files.
To illustrate several features of Hadoop and the YARN ResourceManager service GUI, the pi and terasort examples are presented next. To find help for running the other examples, enter the example name without any arguments. Chapter 6, “MapReduce Programming,” covers one of the other popular examples called wordcount.
Running the Pi Example
The pi example calculates the digits of π using a quasi-Monte Carlo method. If you have not added users to HDFS (see Chapter 10, “Basic Hadoop Administration Procedures”), run these tests as user hdfs. To run the pi example with 16 maps and 1,000,000 samples per map, enter the following command:
$ yarn jar $HADOOP_EXAMPLES/hadoop-mapreduce-examples.jar pi 16 1000000
If the program runs correctly, you should see output similar to the following. (Some of the Hadoop INFO messages have been removed for clarity.)
Number of Maps = 16
Samples per Map = 1000000
Wrote input for Map #0
Wrote input for Map #1
Wrote input for Map #2
Wrote input for Map #3
Wrote input for Map #4
Wrote input for Map #5
Wrote input for Map #6
Wrote input for Map #7
Wrote input for Map #8
Wrote input for Map #9
Wrote input for Map #10
Wrote input for Map #11
Wrote input for Map #12
Wrote input for Map #13
Wrote input for Map #14
Wrote input for Map #15
Starting Job
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15/05/13 20:10:30 INFO mapreduce.Job: map 0% reduce 0%
15/05/13 20:10:37 INFO mapreduce.Job: map 19% reduce 0%
15/05/13 20:10:39 INFO mapreduce.Job: map 50% reduce 0%
15/05/13 20:10:46 INFO mapreduce.Job: map 56% reduce 0%
15/05/13 20:10:47 INFO mapreduce.Job: map 94% reduce 0%
15/05/13 20:10:48 INFO mapreduce.Job: map 100% reduce 100%
15/05/13 20:10:48 INFO mapreduce.Job: Job job_1429912013449_0047 completed
successfully
15/05/13 20:10:48 INFO mapreduce.Job: Counters: 49
File System Counters
FILE: Number of bytes read=358
FILE: Number of bytes written=1949395
FILE: Number of read operations=0
FILE: Number of large read operations=0
FILE: Number of write operations=0
HDFS: Number of bytes read=4198
HDFS: Number of bytes written=215
HDFS: Number of read operations=67
HDFS: Number of large read operations=0
HDFS: Number of write operations=3
Job Counters
Launched map tasks=16
Launched reduce tasks=1
Data-local map tasks=16
Total time spent by all maps in occupied slots (ms)=158378
Total time spent by all reduces in occupied slots (ms)=8462
Total time spent by all map tasks (ms)=158378
Total time spent by all reduce tasks (ms)=8462
Total vcore-seconds taken by all map tasks=158378
Total vcore-seconds taken by all reduce tasks=8462
Total megabyte-seconds taken by all map tasks=243268608
Total megabyte-seconds taken by all reduce tasks=12997632
Map-Reduce Framework
Map input records=16
Map output records=32
Map output bytes=288
Map output materialized bytes=448
Input split bytes=2310
Combine input records=0
Combine output records=0
Reduce input groups=2
Reduce shuffle bytes=448
Reduce input records=32
Reduce output records=0
Spilled Records=64
Shuffled Maps=16
Failed Shuffles=0
Merged Map outputs=16
GC time elapsed (ms)=1842
CPU time spent (ms)=11420
Physical memory (bytes) snapshot=13405769728
Virtual memory (bytes) snapshot=33911930880
Total committed heap usage (bytes)=17026777088
Shuffle Errors
BAD_ID=0
CONNECTION=0
IO_ERROR=0
WRONG_LENGTH=0
WRONG_MAP=0
WRONG_REDUCE=0
File Input Format Counters
Bytes Read=1888
File Output Format Counters
Bytes Written=97
Job Finished in 23.718 seconds
Estimated value of Pi is 3.14159125000000000000
Notice that the MapReduce progress is shown in the same way as Hadoop version 1, but the application statistics are different. Most of the statistics are self-explanatory. The one important item to note is that the YARN MapReduce framework is used to run the program. (See Chapter 1, “Background and Concepts,” and Chapter 8, “Hadoop YARN Applications,” for more information about YARN frameworks.)
Using the Web GUI to Monitor Examples
This section provides an illustration of using the YARN ResourceManager web GUI to monitor and find information about YARN jobs. The Hadoop version 2 YARN ResourceManager web GUI differs significantly from the MapReduce web GUI found in Hadoop version 1. Figure 4.1 shows the main YARN web interface. The cluster metrics are displayed in the top row, while the running applications are displayed in the main table. A menu on the left provides navigation to the nodes table, various job categories (e.g., New, Accepted, Running, Finished, Failed), and the Capacity Scheduler (covered in Chapter 10, “Basic Hadoop Administration Procedures”). This interface can be opened directly from the Ambari YARN service Quick Links menu or by directly entering http://hostname:8088 into a local web browser. For this example, the pi application is used. Note that the application can run quickly and may finish before you have fully explored the GUI. A longer-running application, such as terasort, may be helpful when exploring all the various links in the GUI.
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Figure 4.1 Hadoop RUNNING Applications web GUI for the pi example
For those readers who have used or read about Hadoop version 1, if you look at the Cluster Metrics table, you will see some new information. First, you will notice that the “Map/Reduce Task Capacity” has been replaced by the number of running containers. If YARN is running a MapReduce job, these containers can be used for both map and reduce tasks. Unlike in Hadoop version 1, the number of mappers and reducers is not fixed. There are also memory metrics and links to node status. If you click on the Nodes link (left menu under About), you can get a summary of the node activity and state. For example, Figure 4.2 is a snapshot of the node activity while the pi application is running. Notice the number of containers, which are used by the MapReduce framework as either mappers or reducers.
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Figure 4.2 Hadoop YARN ResourceManager nodes status window
Going back to the main Applications/Running window (Figure 4.1), if you click on the application_14299... link, the Application status window in Figure 4.3 will appear. This window provides an application overview and metrics, including the cluster node on which the ApplicationMaster container is running.
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Figure 4.3 Hadoop YARN application status for the pi example
Clicking the ApplicationMaster link next to “Tracking URL:” in Figure 4.3 leads to the window shown in Figure 4.4. Note that the link to the application’s ApplicationMaster is also found in the last column on the main Running Applications screen shown in Figure 4.1.
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Figure 4.4 Hadoop YARN ApplicationMaster for MapReduce application
In the MapReduce Application window, you can see the details of the MapReduce application and the overall progress of mappers and reducers. Instead of containers, the MapReduce application now refers to maps and reducers. Clicking job_14299... brings up the window shown in Figure 4.5. This window displays more detail about the number of pending, running, completed, and failed mappers and reducers, including the elapsed time since the job started.
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Figure 4.5 Hadoop YARN MapReduce job progress
The status of the job in Figure 4.5 will be updated as the job progresses (the window needs to be refreshed manually). The ApplicationMaster collects and reports the progress of each mapper and reducer task. When the job is finished, the window is updated to that shown in Figure 4.6. It reports the overall run time and provides a breakdown of the timing of the key phases of the MapReduce job (map, shuffle, merge, reduce).
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Figure 4.6 Hadoop YARN completed MapReduce job summary
If you click the node used to run the ApplicationMaster (n0:8042 in Figure 4.6), the window in Figure 4.7 opens and provides a summary from the NodeManager on node n0. Again, the NodeManager tracks only containers; the actual tasks running in the containers are determined by the ApplicationMaster.
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Figure 4.7 Hadoop YARN NodeManager for n0 job summary
Going back to the job summary page (Figure 4.6), you can also examine the logs for the ApplicationMaster by clicking the “logs” link. To find information about the mappers and reducers, click the numbers under the Failed, Killed, and Successful columns. In this example, there were 16 successful mappers and one successful reducer. All the numbers in these columns lead to more information about individual map or reduce process. For instance, clicking the “16” under “-Successful” in Figure 4.6 displays the table of map tasks in Figure 4.8. The metrics for the Application Master container are displayed in table form. There is also a link to the log file for each process (in this case, a map process). Viewing the logs requires that the yarn.log.aggregation-enable variable in the yarn-site.xml file be set. For more on changing Hadoop settings, see Chapter 9, “Managing Hadoop with Apache Ambari.”
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Figure 4.8 Hadoop YARN MapReduce logs available for browsing
If you return to the main cluster window (Figure 4.1), choose Applications/Finished, and then select our application, you will see the summary page shown in Figure 4.9.
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Figure 4.9 Hadoop YARN application summary page
There are a few things to notice in the previous windows. First, because YARN manages applications, all information reported by the ResourceManager concerns the resources provided and the application type (in this case, MAPREDUCE). In Figure 4.1 and Figure 4.4, the YARN ResourceManager refers to the pi example by its application-id (application_1429912013449_0044). YARN has no data about the actual application other than the fact that it is a MapReduce job. Data from the actual MapReduce job are provided by the MapReduce framework and referenced by a job-id (job_1429912013449_0044) in Figure 4.6. Thus, two clearly different data streams are combined in the web GUI: YARN applications and MapReduce framework jobs. If the framework does not provide job information, then certain parts of the web GUI will not have anything to display.
Another interesting aspect of the previous windows is the dynamic nature of the mapper and reducer tasks. These tasks are executed as YARN containers, and their number will change as the application runs. Users may request specific numbers of mappers and reducers, but the ApplicationMaster uses them in a dynamic fashion. As mappers complete, the ApplicationMaster will return the containers to the ResourceManager and request a smaller number of reducer containers. This feature provides for much better cluster utilization because mappers and reducers are dynamic—rather than fixed—resources.